The future of the Southwest Nelson Rams middle school football team could hang in the balance of a vote Wednesday by the Mid-Kentucky Athletic Conference over whether to continue to allow parochial school children to play on public school teams.

CHRISTINA L. MUDD
Special To The Standard
The 70th annual Bourbon Open tournament began this week, and after a full day of golf, Friday night was packed with social events.
From bourbon tasting to karaoke and dancing to daily prizes for the golfers, there was a wide array of activities to be enjoyed. Many participants were highly enthusiastic concerning the festivities provided throughout the evening. Despite the high temperatures and humidity, there was a sizeable crowd in attendance.

For nearly the first 50 years of the Bourbon Open, it was a man’s world.
With a full field on a yearly basis and the number of spots available restricted by the nine-hole golf course at My Old Kentucky Home, the female golfers were relegated to being behind the scenes, providing assistance with the scoring, helping with the social activities, and taking a lead role in the production of the Bourbon Open program.

With so many players returning to compete in the Bourbon Open year after year, and with so little turnover in the field, mid-May in Bardstown is a time of renewal.
Friends catch up with one another, telling stories and recapping the previous year.
And for a St. Louis attorney, the Bourbon Open brings together members of his family from several different states.
Richard Shinner is competing in 34th tournament this weekend, and he says that there are Shinners coming from everywhere.

Not only is it one of the longest running golf tournaments in the state, it can also boast having one of the largest fields.
As most area invitational tournaments struggle to attract a competitive field, the Bourbon Open celebrates its 70th anniversary with 450 golfers from all parts of Kentucky and several other states scheduled to take part in the tournament that begins Thursday at My Old Kentucky Home State Park golf course.
Yes, it starts on Thursday.

Moans and groans, the clanking of metal hitting the floor, and maybe a few choice words were not the sounds of torture, but the echoes of those in training for the past few weeks at Darkside Athletics as they prepared to hit the road to the Festivus Games last weekend at Crossfit the Tracks in Erlanger.
Eight members of the weight lifting and conditioning class at Darkside Athletics registered to compete in the nationwide event on April 18.

Usually, the recruiting process goes something like this: Coaches see an athlete at high school or summer league competition. If they like what they see, they offer the athlete a scholarship.
It wasn’t quite that simple for Julianna Bradley.
Bradley is home-schooled, and as a result, she didn’t have the organized structure to her athletic career that is available to her counterparts attending traditional high school.

Sports fans find many ways to demonstrate their passion for their teams. Some, such as Chris Hawkins, are way more creative about it than others.
“Very few people would probably know him as Chris Hawkins, even those who went to school with him,” said Gary Goode, one of Hawkins’ former teachers at Bardstown High School. “Everybody just knows him as ‘Cheez.’”

It could be deemed the ‘Miracle on 400, North Fifth Street’, as Bardstowns’ Alexis Brewer, knocked down the final shot of the game as time expired on Monday. The extraordinary bucket gave the host Tigers a 47-44 victory over PRP.
What appeared to be an eternity of anticipation—her shot clipped the front of the rim, and trickled off the back brace, then came forward, teetering on the lip of the iron, until it was seemingly willed through the basket, as the horn sounded.